The first phase of a €600 million public-private partnership on the Internet of the Future (FI-PPP) was launched today by European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes. The partnership will support innovation in Europe and help businesses and governments to develop internet solutions that will be capable of managing the exponential increase in online data. Whilst so far we have experienced the Internet of connected computers, and connected people, the Internet is now going mobile and it will connect a whole range of machines and objects. The current Internet is simply not capable of managing these future data streams, nor is it able to provide the desired accuracy, resilience and safety.
Archive for 2011/05/03
Commission and European industry join forces to build the Internet of the Future
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Public Policy, Tech EvolutionOpenDNS offers IPv6 Internet DNS services
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionAs a penetration tester hired to pierce the digital fortresses of Fortune 1000 casinos, banks and energy companies, Kevin Finisterre has hacked electronic cash boxes, geologic-survey equipment, and on more than one occasion, a client’s heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessBut one of his most unusual hacks came during a recent assignment testing the security of a US-based municipal government. After scanning several IP addresses used by the city’s police department, he soon discovered they connected directly into a Linux device carried in police cruisers. Using little more than FTP and telnet commands, he then tapped into a digital video recorder used to record and stream audio and video captured from gear mounted on the vehicle’s dashboard
More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/cop_car_hacking/
Speakers at a bloggers conference at the Vatican this week gave themselves an indulgence, saying it is OK to lift content from “old media” and that copyright was old hat
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / AwarenessThe Vatican’s Councils for Culture and Social Communications had invited 150 bloggers to a meeting in Rome
US military warboffins claim that they have found one of the internet’s holiest grails – that of true, tagless searchable-video technology
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolutionwonder-software which could work with the actual video itself and highlight “specific events or activities at specific locations or over a range of locations” or carry out “fast, content-based searches of existing video archives”
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, media tart and controversialist, has leveled his hyperbole gun at Facebook, calling it “the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented”
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / AwarenessHe also said Facebook, along with Google and Yahoo!, have “built-in interfaces” for US intelligence
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/facebook_a_spying_machine/
Ready alternatives indicate TV ownership is poised for decline
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsNever Give Up: Perfect 10 Sues Giganews Usenet Service
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, LitigationTime was said on Sunday night to have brokered a crucial deal with Apple to allow free downloads of iPad magazines for existing print subscribers
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsThe deal could signal a rare willingness to strike a balance at Apple
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/01/time.allowed.to.offer.ipad.mags.for.free/
Dutch RABO Bank online banking systems down due to Denial of Service (DoS) attack
Posted: 2011/05/03 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionRABO Bank confirms that DoS attacks shut down internet banking platform and mobile banking application
Dutch language news article: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/74207/rabobank-kampt-met-storingen-door-ddos-aanvallen-update.html
